Research assistants Chelsea Merriman, standing, and Adrian Rus place markers that can be seen from the air in a research plot of sagebrush. Three subspecies of sagebrush, grown from seeds from a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Work crews return to W.E. Johnson Park in December, seven months after a Richland project meant to restore 10 acres of shrub ...

Appearances can be deceiving. At first glance, you'd never think the rolling white sand dunes of southeastern New Mexico and west Texas held the largest stand of oak in the country. The region's ...

Though often cast aside as the bastard stepchild of Santa Barbara County, there’s plenty of peace and beauty to be found in the Cuyama Valley, which drops from the pine-studded mountain passes of Los ...

ELKO — Sagebrush is a ubiquitous kind of plant. It grows in most Nevadans' backyards, appears on the Nevada state flag and serves as a source of coals for grilling. It is also a habitat for sage ...

Like a frothy sea, these mint green to pale blue plants sweep across the dry, vast vistas of America's Intermountain West. Taken in Arapaho National Wildlife Refuge ...

Efforts to improve sage grouse habitat through conventional management practices may be ineffective -- and even counterproductive -- according to research by University of Wyoming and other scientists ...

Oregon State University just won a $3.6 million grant for sagebrush-ecosystem restoration. That's good news -- sagelands conservation always seems to take a back seat to other landscapes. I wonder if ...